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> EDIT: from cursory checking it seems like plutonium outputs 8 gigawatts, holy shit. A critical mass of plutonium will output just any imaginable amount of po
by baybal2 6y ago
> EDIT: from cursory checking it seems like plutonium outputs 8 gigawatts, holy shit.
A critical mass of plutonium will output just any imaginable amount of power your powerplant can handle.
- Someone 6y ago…for a very small amount of time. Tsar Bomba (about 50 megatons of TNT) released about 58 TWh (according to Google, searching for “50 megaton TNT in twh”) in, I guess, less than a ms. Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption, you would need ten of those each day to cover the world’s energy needs (≈ double that to convert heat into motion, move it to users (who won’t want to live near the energy production facility, etc)